skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m an older person who used to work out regularly in a gym before Covid. Since lockdown, I have spent a fair amount of money on exercise equipment for my home—dumbbells, elastic bands, and, especially, a cable crossover machine that cost a couple of thousand dollars. Even though I have no experience with rowing or rowing machines, your product is the sort of thing I might have considered buying last spring.

Here’s my initial, superficial reaction. The video on your site shows people using the machine not only for cardio but also for resistance training. But as near as I can tell, the resistance training is possible in only one direction: bicep curls but not tricep extensions, pulling for the back but not pushing for the chest. The shot of the man doing dips is not very convincing, as that move can be done perfectly well without your machine, and it can’t be done while looking at the screen.

I can imagine buying a cardio-only machine that doesn’t try to provide a strength workout. But your video also seems to promote the muscle-building elements while going only halfway. For me, at least, that is a bit of a turnoff.
Some public schools sell as space on their students' lockers.

Remember, any moment of attention can be monetized through advertising - and therefore it should be. Any tine a person is thinking their own thoughts is a wasted opportunity.
Actually if you think about it, it may not be. He will need to take it for a walk and you never know. He may run into someone else walking their dog. Now they have a common activity. Actually it's a great idea. Take the dog out to different neighborhoods to walk it.

It seems you simply need something in common to start a conversation. You never know where that might lead to. The funny part is, while his dog is sniffing/scoping out the other person's dog. You have nothing better to do except to why not strike up a conversation... "say..does your pooch always sniff like that?"
This has been comprehensively rejected as untrue by AstraZeneca, widely reported by Reuters and other agencies.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-ast...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jan/25/coronavir...
It's an interesting domain to think about. The big one would be re-establishing communication networks, being able to coordinate with groups across a large area is obviously the first thing any group with power (or looking to establish power) will do after ensuring food, water and shelter. It's pretty much a necessity if you want to maintain any power.

I could see embedded style sensors and technology being very practical, tools for measuring temperature/humidity etc and logging it constantly, sensors to measure water levels in rain tanks, basic inventory systems for food, basic automations for things like farming (automatic watering systems/collection systems even?)

Security is another one to think of: Sensors to detect people entering/leaving an area, trail cams for hunting, alarms etc.
You are talking about hyperopia (farsightedness), not myopia (nearsightedness) in your case, right?
Way to go. Someone gave me an old unlocked Android phone that had almost no apps installed. Playing around with it, I removed all the installed apps and somehow I managed to also disable (break) PlayStore so that it does not work, refuses to update. If there is way to fix it, I surmise it is well beyond the capabilities of the average Android user. AFAICT PlayStore cannot communicate with the mothership to heal itself nor send user data; anyway there are no PlayStore apps installed.

I installed a few useful F-Droid apks. Installing from "untrusted" sources seems far more reliable than any "app store". Besides the F-Droid apps I use it like a dumb phone with maps on a different cellular network. I wish there were more reliable sources for apks, like F-Droid, including apks for older Android versions.
There's routing information, payload size information and temporal information; without reading the message, an adversary could determine where (possibly who) the message is going/coming from, and when it was in transit, and how big it was.

That's enough to start modelling.
well kind of hard to find 1 GHz of bandwidth below 1 GHz in frequency .
We welcome our Canadian brothers and sisters with open arms. My cofounder came from Waterloo and together we built a good company with good jobs here in the US.
TSMC and Taiwan chip peers weigh new price hikes for autos
Doesn’t make any sound?
Look at the history of Iridium.
Is there plans for I18N for the content buckets?
I think you're misunderstanding their claim, because you are both saying the same thing. They are claiming that juniors are unable to see (imagine, anticipate,) the cases in which _the code that they have delivered_ is crap; whereas the senior, with the benefit of painful experience, are able to predict the failure cases of this currently-apparently-working _delivered_ code.
> Bothering others is not a human right.

The ruiling doesn't mention bothering others. That was something you introduced to the conversation, just so you could dismiss it.
I say this every time, but individual targeting should be illegal. The ad industry thrived for thousands of years without ads that follow you everywhere.

Invasive targeting is only 20 years old, a blink in the history of advertising. If it was gone tomorrow these companies would just go back to targeting based on the ad placement rather than unique person viewing it. What we have now is the dystopian sci fi movie where ads shift as different people look at them.

If you don't think it's dystopian, consider that every ad your coworkers see when you're sharing your screen is based on the best targeting data advertisers can find. Your screen is disclosing your interests, wealth, medical history, kinks, etc to anyone looking at it. It's fucked up.
> hostile towards to the OpenBSD project and developers for many years.

What happened and Why ?
This is correct. The problem above was conflating "on the merits" with determining facts by considering evidence.
> It is time to pick a winner from all the multitude of tools out there and GNU should go with that....

plain Makefiles without configuration that work on linux and macos out of the box. Those are musch easier to write than to setup autotools or write a cmakelists.
Or France or Europe in general.
Things happen around the technologies of the era, but the technologies are not the center of the show by any means.
We should be seeing signs of this in the UK and USA surely?
Yes. If you are looking for validation on that you might check out https://twitter.com/sandboxbear who is open about it, but at the same time, take caution in doing so since they are actively struggling.
Study of 9,620 brains reveals how gender stereotypes affect mental health
> The Black Lives Matter protests only get to be called insurrections if their goal was to supplant those authorities or forcefully override their will.

So, you mean like hypothetically taking over 6 blocks of downtown Seattle and declaring it an autonomous zone?
Hey kureikain, thank you for sharing your experience and progress! I think one thing I'm wondering is who do you see as your target market? I am a python dev with background in web and such, but I'm not really understanding the problem you're solving from your website. Also, the first step of 3 simple steps is something something MX record. Again maybe I'm not your target market but I don't really now what that means. I know it's some email DNS thing, but beyond that I find it fairly convoluted and as a result I still don't know what you're selling. Please don't take this personally, and thank you for posting, this truly is wonderful to see the things you are working on.
Why does my browser routinely eat 8GB while it used to only require 32MB 25 years ago? because it can. Web services likewise come up with features and data to fill databases.

For $8/hr you can rent a DB with 500 GB of memory and 64 cores, complete with redundancy, automated backups, and failover. For the hourly rate of an oracle consultant you can rent a DB with 2TB of memory for the day.

Bear in mind that many of these workloads are trivially shardable (e.g. any table keyed off customer ID) and can be scaled across hundreds of DBs as required.
Strong vote for this new animal being Badger. Bull vs Bear vs Badger
I'd start by keeping groups private and invite-from-contacts only.

Then Signal is no more culpable than any other chat service over which OTR or similar could operate.
It really depends on what you do. Amazon.com, for example, works perfectly fine with javascript disabled. They do it because they care about selling to everyone and know that even people with old computers and old software buy things.

Web devs keep repeating to themselves that no one browses with JS off but you can't see the ones that have it off if all you use to survey is JS itself.
I asked 20 founders how they met their first investor
That's quite some allegation. You would want to be very confident you understand things to allege p-jacking.
Three point harness common in business class longhaul. It comes with the lieflat seat designs.
Outside of the context of this lawsuit; why should the burden of proof be on Dominion when the claims are made against them by the Trump Campaign?

To extend your line of reasoning, if accused of a crime should you have to prove you didn’t do it? Or should the burden be on the accuser/prosecution?
Good point, but the whole thing is a made-up excuse. "Pedo" just means pedophile in South Africa.
Indeed, a flat phased array can only have a certain limited gain at elevations and azimuths far away from the direction it's pointed in. One of the reasons if you ever see a flat phased array radar inside the nose radome of a air superiority type fighter jet, they're not fixed but also can be mounted on a sort of pan/tilt platform for steering.
Maybe tone.js will be helpful. https://tonejs.github.io/
Thanks for that link! That's amazing. I had no idea that work had ever been done.

According to my math 10 million moles of random sequence 50-base pair RNA segments would be required to ensure a correct 'Hit' on a replicator, assuming only one of those 50-long sequences can replicate. 4^50=10^30. 10^30/Avogadro=10^7. Assuming each enzyme is the size of a water molecule, that would be about one large swimming pool of water.
Grab Is Said to Pick Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan for U.S. IPO
> *Well almost perfectly. I don't remember many engineers or coders being as attractive as the actors on this show.

This always amuses me about American-produced shows. Even the guy cast as 'background hobo #2' is a handsome person with token dirt and ragged clothes applied.
Fortunately not found in plant or fungus matter, is it?

Genetically engineered yeast could be a problem.
Felt more "sign of the times" to me than specific to the tech world. It's when women were entering the workplace in mass. Cameron was respected amongst peers. She was looked down on because of her other personality traits (laziness, unfocused, gamer, rebellious, etc) but she would pull an all-nighter and develop some massive solution to a problem that other engineers had spent weeks on right before crunch time. If she had helped ahead of time or worked well with others, it would have made for crap TV but would have helped her if it was the real world.

It's been a few years but that's how I remember it.
Rather than a total and permanent collapse, instead imagine a large-scale supply shock. Governments and institutions can access parts but consumers are rationed out of the supply chain for a while. Thailand's tsunami knocked out hard drive manufacturing back in 2011 [0], and crypto-tokens have persistently strained graphics card supplies for several years recently [1].

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/25/thailand-...

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2021/01/06/bad-news-gr...
No risks analogous to the ones detected by those tools exist for encrypted messages.
You don't need fancy intriguing machines and hackers to engage in old school ballot stuffing. That has been going on since forever (_not_ a statement on the validity of the past election).

Foreign agent hacker compromised machine stories are more interesting and shocking maybe.

Still, after the Georgia recount you'd think they would have dropped the machine claims but they kept at it.

Where did those stories originate in the first place though? And why? Maybe some of this will come to light during the lawsuits.

Powell and Giuliani's behavior and claims seemed pretty far out to me. Maybe they were misled, maybe they were just foolish and looking for a sensational story. Hope we find out.
Do you believe in fail fast and fail quickly?
The first two sites with listed fees for 1:1 skating lessons that I found:

Toronto: $160 CAD ($125.34 USD) for 45 minutes, which is $2.78 USD/minute https://www.evergreen.ca/whats-on/event/private-learn-to-ska...

Toronto: $9-$15 CAD ($7.05-$11.74 USD) per 15 minutes, which is $0.47-$0.78 USD/minute https://www.uppercanadaskating.com/pages/Programs/privateles....

Hawaii: $25 USD for 20 minutes, which is $1.25 USD/minute https://www.icepalacehawaii.com/private-lessons

Hawaii: Perhaps unsurprisingly, I wasn't able to find a second site in my 10 minute timebox.

Not trying to snark, was just interested in looking up some skating lessons.
have you read "Spark in the Machine"? Its an attempt to connect bioelectric science with ancient notions of 'chi', it goes over neural crest cells, organization centers for cell growth, and the electrosensitive pericardium cage near the heart.

They definitely didn't get 100% of it right, buts its quite uncanny how the ancient texts were so accurate at predicting certain things that are only becoming evident in morphogensis research.
Back when radio was the only mass medium that you could reach entire populations on, would you have argued that anyone with a POV should be able to broadcast over the air, "because free speech" ?

Back when there were only 3 TV networks that reached the whole of the US, would you have argued that anyone with a POV should be able to get some time (how long?) on one of those networks, "because free speech" ?

Free speech never meant the ability to demand the use of any mechanism or any resource to reach a real or hypothetical audience. Changing the definition because lots of people chat on social media doesn't cut it, I think.
Yes, because e.g. a multi-panel design would be limited by regulations. Hence they decided on the single panel for ROI/cost-efficiency purposes.
Dunno how they're doing it.

Thinking aloud, it's not the easiest thing to calculate. You can can short a stock and acquire it right after without closing the two net-zero positions. Why? To mess with short interest calculations. You do lose trading fees and spreads whenever you do it.

Then you have all of the options going around.
“Michael Young adapted his 1955 Ph.D. thesis into a dystopian novel” - https://discoversociety.org/2018/10/02/the-birth-of-meritocr...

“When the word meritocracy made its first recorded appearance, in 1956 in the obscure British journal Socialist Commentary, it was a term of abuse, describing a ludicrously unequal state that surely no one would want to live in. Why, mused the industrial sociologist Alan Fox, would you want to give more prizes to the already prodigiously gifted? Instead, he argued, we should think about “cross-grading”: how to give those doing difficult or unattractive jobs more leisure time, and share out wealth more equitably so we all have a better quality of life and a happier society.” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/20/merito...

“Jean Floud, Alan Fox, and Michael Young had a number of commonalities. Jean Floud taught at the London School of Economics while Michael Young was pursuing his PhD. Alan Fox was a member of that 1950s circle of left-leaning thinkers that included Jean Froud and Michael Young. Since all three are now dead, it's tough to say which amongst those three coined the word "meritocracy". Michael Young had already been evincing thoughts along the lines that led to his publication of The Rise of the Meritocracy since 1951. Most references go with Michael Young as the originator of the word. One last thing is certain: The term as coined by one of those three was anything but complimentary. It was instead quite derogatory.” - https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/34390/did-the-t...

“the magazine Socialist Commentary (to which Young contributed) the industrial sociologist Alan Fox put the word in quotation marks and defined it as ‘the society in which the gifted, the smart, the energetic, the ambitious and the ruthless are carefully sifted out and helped towards their destined positions of dominance, where they proceed not only to enjoy the fulfilment of exercising their natural endowments but also to receive a fat bonus thrown in for good measure’.”.

1. Young says he created the word, and we have no reason to doubt that (as per Guardian link).

2. It was used in a negative sense in 1956

I think you are cherry-picking. If you wish to disagree with the generally held beliefs, then I think you should pick a better reference than one comment on an Internet page.
Fine, with enough replicas, you can sleep well at night. But how about the 3 years uptime without reboot? Can you really enjoy your morning coffee without thinking about it? :)

Netflix went full ephemeral storage for their Cassandra clusters since the beginning, at the time when they were just spinning disks. Years later, they still insist on doing this, and had to come up with creative solution to fix the uptime issue: https://netflixtechblog.medium.com/datastore-flash-upgrades-...
Heat is not 'banked' by the atmosphere though; it is radiated away. If that heat were not trapped phase changing water, a significant fraction would be radiated back into space.
You probably always had some mild hyperopia that you were able to accommodate, but you lost that ability due to presbyopia. Perfectly natural. I would really recommend getting some multi-focals or to look into other solutions such as monovision.
Do you know what SMS-card based computers are still operational? Or if anyone has done anything with the spare cards (besides scrapping them, anyway) or made replica systems out of similar modular cards?
I’m talking about nearsightedness. But in all honesty I don’t know what the underlying causes are as I haven’t been to an optometrist about it. I think my last check up was when I was in grade 6. Horrible, I know. I noticed it a few years ago and it bothered me enough to do some late night googling to see what snake oil I come across, but I decided to give it a try as a “I doubt I’ll permanently injure my eye trying to get it to focus”. I’ve been staring at a computer screen for well over 25 years, almost every day. I think that at this point it’s more of a genetic lottery that I’m not wearing glasses for severe myopia more than anything.

It’s not perfect like it was when I was younger, I don’t know if it’ll ever be to that level of clarity but I did develop the ability to rapidly focus which for me is “good enough.” I don’t always have to force the focusing - relaxing the eye and not blinking also does the trick, but I combine both of them since I think of it as stretching the muscle out slightly, making it more elastic by ping ponging between focal planes a little bit. Either way, as long as I can impress the plebs by being able to read road signs at a distance that they can’t, I’ll be alright.

I wanted to make the original post because, HN being inquisitive into longevity and health research, I’m very surprised that over the years very few people discussed active focus or other “alternative” vision correction methods. I’m sure there must be lots of people who wear vision correction here. I’d rather not, so I decided to try the weird stuff first and see how things go.
CockroachDB is pretty good at encapsulating the complexity of multi-master.

You'll have to accept that transactions can fail due to conflicts, so if they are interactive, you'll have to retry manually.

Edit: I'd like hear criticism, instead of just seeing disapproval.
Energy for Excellent Leaders. Critical awareness for mitochondria
I wonder why the interested parties don't just offer to pay for ID cards. Seems like this would solve both problems, but perhaps I'm missing something obvious.
It's bigger than a 737
I summarized the EndMyopia/Todd Becker stuff at losetheglasses.org if anyone wants a short, readable version. The method continues to work for me, albeit slowly.
For change to exist as a possibility in this reality we must have privacy. Freedom of thought, of expression, of association are all predicated on privacy as the space to construct epiphanies into narrative.

Absent privacy, change in our world becomes impossible.
Are they not launching Falcon 9s with customer payloads and charging more than it costs?
Dimitri Khalezov says the Kursk was loaded with P-700 Granit mini-nukes when it sank during 2000: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster
> It is why the show is so much better as both computing history and drama than all those films about Apple or Steve Jobs [...]

Loved Halt & Catch Fire

Pirates of Silicon Valley was pretty great, no? Idk about its accuracy though.
I thought Season 1 was the best season.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the Syllabi of these online CS courses?
Been out of school for 3 years, working at Walmart and they have a benefit that will basically pay for all my schooling for participating programs.

I've narrowed it to these two programs by virtue of the deadline to apply not being in the next 4 days, but the start date not being 4 months from now.

Southern New Hampshire Uni:
https://www.snhu.edu/admission/academic-catalogs/coce-catalog#/programs/V1S14E8tg/none?bc=true&bcCurrent=Computer%20Science%20(BS)&bcGroup=STEM&bcItemType=programs

Wilmington Uni:
https://www.wilmu.edu/technology/computer-science-curriculum.aspx

I'd have to take a readiness assessment before applying to Wilmington, so if I fail that it makes the choice easier, but otherwise I don't really know. I would also have to choose a concentration for either program, but that will probably be easier.

Looking at the syllabus, it looks like Wilmington Gen Ed requires less (relatively) higher math, which would be attractive to me because the last math class I took was Alg 1 3-4 years ago and I don't want to get bodied.

What are your immediate thoughts?
(I guess I should probably state my education goals - get an employable degree and learn cool stuff along the way, the gen ed might actually be more valuable to me than the CS stuff spending 1 hour lessons explaining what a function is)
How is this anything but concern trolling? Or even borderline extortion: "Nice user growth you have there, Signal. Would be a shame if your employees walked out on you."

The entire value proposition of Signal is that no one in the middle can see what's going across. The vast majority of those things will be benign or even good. A few will be bad or abusive. People use Twitter, Gmail, Facebook Messenger, Apple Messages and whatever Google is calling their chat client today for good, bad and ugly things, too.

I'd have much more respect for Casey Newton (I hope you're reading this) if he disrobed from his pretense and lectured us about Signal being a tool for Orange Man 2.0, rather than this vague whisper campaign about "abuse." And, personally, unless Newton entirely made up his quotes or took them totally out of context, Gregg Bernstein (hope he reads this, too) would have very little shot of making it past a phone screen with me. A former employee trying to stir up my workforce by attacking the core values of my company in the press is not something I look kindly on.
Speaking of music, while this show has so many amazing things going for it, one of the best is the intro sequence and the theme music. That puts it on rare footing with shows like Mad Men and Covert Affairs. I know Netflix puts this button on everything, but I never use the "Skip Intro" button on these series.